is used by text recognition software to convert typed, printed, or handwritten text into the computer-based characters that form the original letters and words.

Optical Character Recognition

Explanation:

Optical Character Recognition (Reader) Shortened as OCR refers to the conversion of images (as well as hand writings or printed text) from scanned documents or images into text that can be stored (Soft-copy) in the computer.

This allows the information to be edited on the computer, In the most basic form the information is scanned with a photo scanner and then converted with a OCR to be edited with a word processor such as MS-Word